Piazza di Siena, record jackpots: half a million for the Rome GP
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Another record jackpot a Siena square – in total one million eurosone hundred thousand more than in 2022 – for the four days of competitions scheduled a Villa Borghese, Rome, from 25 to 28 May. A record that honors the 90th edition of the Csio dedicated to the d’Inzeo brothers.
It starts on Thursday at the Galoppatoio with a mixed category on a course with obstacles 145 centimeters high (prize of 26.2 thousand euros). Two other races scheduled on the turf of Piazza di Siena will follow: the first, the Major Awardis a consecutive stage category and the other, the Eni Awardis instead a timed category, with obstacles of 1.45 and 1.50 meters respectively and prize money of 26.2 and 30 thousand euros.
Piazza di Siena: competitions, programme, timetables, TV and streaming
Friday 26 May again opening day at the Galoppatoio with the Safe Riding Award, accumulator category with 1.45 high joker (11.4 thousand euros). A timed category will follow, with obstacles 1.55 meters high (33,000 euros) in Piazza di Siena, the Aston Martin Award, qualifying for the Grand Prix. It will act as a prologue to the prestigious Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup: two heats (the first qualifying for the Grand Prix) of the eagerly awaited team race, with a prize fund of 220,000 euros that ten teams will compete on 1.60m courses.
The program for Saturday 27 May is also rich, all articulated in the oval of Piazza di Siena, starting from Kep Italy Award, a timed category 1.45 h (26.2 thousand euros). The other two races of the day will be of a high technical and spectacular profile: the demanding one Loro Piana Trophymixed category h 1.55 (110 thousand euros), and the thrilling Six Barriers Loro Piana (20 thousand euros).
Piazza di Siena: knights, amazons and horses competing at Villa Borghese
Finally, the stage for the grand finale on Sunday May 28 will be all for the coveted and rich Rolex Grand Prix Rome, this too with an increased total prize money and reached 500,000 euros (a quarter, 125,000 euros, for the winner). Fifty starters who will take to the field in a race with obstacles placed at a height of 1.60 meters which will award the winner not only victory in what is one of the most coveted Grands Prix in the world, but also a place in the history of the show jumping.
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